Here is something that many people don’t know about me. What I’m about to share changed the course of my life. It’s also a BIG reason why I am committed to paying it forward to couples that are expecting. When I was 28, my dad passed away at home after a short bout with cancer. I was with him when he died and I’ll never be able to convey the amount of despair that I felt knowing that my father, who was only 59, would not be there to walk me down the aisle or never meet his future grandchildren.
Over the next several months while processing his death, I realized that sometimes sickness and death are out of your control, but my grieving also included an ongoing search for answers to my recurring question “How could my dads illness have been prevented?”
For anyone who is looking for a blueprint to follow for longevity, I’ll save you the time. IT DOESN’T EXIST. What does exist are thousands of research studies, from academic institutions, that show a high correlation between the human lifestyle & current level of health.
My dad followed a typical American lifestyle. While he was very active, he was rarely proactive about his health. Like many people, he had to rely on doctors and medicine to try and restore his health while it was fading.
His passing was a life changing experience for me, but since I like to maintain my optimism, I like to think that this is when my wellness journey began. I slowly began approaching my health from a proactive approach instead of relying on doctors to restore it later.
Since he has passed away, many things have happened.
I got married, started a couple of businesses and have 2 children.
My husband and I own and operate a pediatric/prenatal holistic chiropractic practice, where he is the doctor and I manage the business. We opened our office 9 years ago, and being new to alternative medicine, and on my wellness journey, I soaked up as much information as possible.
Here is what I learned from owning a prenatal chiropractic office…
One thing that I noticed was that the healthiest mothers that he treated were ones that had little to no medical interventions during pregnancy and labor. It was amazing to see a women have a natural childbirth and then bounce back so quickly!
They were getting into shape and losing pregnancy weight within a couple of weeks. They appeared to rarely have pain and they were getting into a deep sleep (as much as possible around their baby’s schedule), which gave them insane amounts of energy!
None of them suffered from postpartum depression and you would never know that they just had a baby because they looked and felt so good. Up until this point, I always envisioned the first year after pregnancy as being far from invigorating, but these women proved me wrong.
Another thing that I noticed was the benefits for babies too. It is common for my husband to treat infants and toddlers for reflux, recurring ear infections, problems with latching, asthma and colic, but it was rare for these conditions to be present following a birth that was free from multiple medical interventions.
After witnessing the benefits of natural childbirth, and knowing that we wanted to have children, I began taking courses on childbirth. After several years and courses later, I felt pretty confident in my knowledge of natural childbirth. I knew that I wanted to attempt to birth this way, and I did! I successfully had 2 natural childbirths (zero medical interventions) in a hospital where 1 out of 3 births are delivered via cesarean section, 70% of births involve an epidural and 50% induce with Pitocin.
Following the birth of our first child, my husband and I saw a need to help women navigate through labor, make proactive choices and provide the best opportunity to experience pregnancy and labor as I did.-An amazing experience!
We created our own method for natural childbirth called The Mason Method for Natural Childbirth.
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